Many semipalmated plovers and dunlins ran along the sand while sanderlings darted in and out of the water. Herons, egrets and ...

While other species have elegant, descriptive, diagnostic or geographic modifiers, all of these birds are simply known as "common." That's common eider, common merganser, common tern, common nighthawk ...

Big Garden Birdwatch is the world’s largest garden wildlife survey. Each year, on the last weekend of January, hundreds of ...

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual citizen-science project that gathers data about wild birds. Participants go outside for at least 15 minutes and identify as many birds as they can. If you ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in Minnesota in ...

Learn what a prothonotary warbler looks like and sounds like and where to find one. Plus learn about their nesting habits and ...